Human footprint: Bags of unknown powdery substance tumbling into marshland at the illegal dumpsite in Bukit Teh near Machang Bubok in Bukit Mertajam.
BUKIT MERTAJAM: A year after truckloads of illegally dumped waste was discovered in marshland here, everything now looks green but there’s more to it than meets the eye.
The thousands of tonnes of plastic waste, discarded furniture, construction debris and food waste have been left there for so long that creeper vines and overgrowth now cover them.
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